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[This is the text of my October 6, 2012 piece for Asia Times Online. It connects the dots between a) the dispute over extending the Keystone pipeline (which carries Canadian oilsands crude) to the US Gulf Coast b) Canadian PM Stephen Harper's encouragement of CNOOC's bid for Nexen in order to generate a plausible Asian-export... Read More